A Chinese engineer accused of blasphemy at the Dasu Hydropower Project in 2023 was protected by police as crowds mobilized. He reached court safely and was later granted bail.
Abdul Ali was moved to a fortified police station in Quetta after hundreds demanded he be handed over over a blasphemy allegation. A police officer allegedly entered posing as...
Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 after allegations of blasphemy. Pakistani courts later convicted dozens of participants.
Rimsha Masih was a Christian child with learning difficulties when she was arrested for blasphemy in Islamabad in 2012. After alleged evidence tampering came to light, the Islamabad High...
In July 2012, a homeless man accused of burning the Quran was taken into police custody in Channi Goth. A crowd of more than 1,000 stormed the station, lynched...
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer publicly supported Asia Bibi and criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy law. On 4 January 2011, one of his own police guards assassinated him in Islamabad.
Asia Bibi, a Christian farm worker, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010. After years in prison, Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned her conviction and acquitted her in October...
Arifwala / Sahiwal, Punjab | 1996–2002 A poor Christian bricklayer. A dispute with a neighbour. A blasphemy allegation. A village forced to leave. A shooting inside a courthouse. A...
Punjab, Pakistan | 1993–1995 A child who could not read or write. Two adult relatives accused alongside him. A blasphemy allegation based on writing allegedly placed on a mosque...
Lahore, Punjab | 1992 He had been accused of blasphemy. He was taken to a police station for questioning.His accuser was there too. And inside the very place where...
